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You are buying a Tesla for $70,000 today with a 5-year loan of 5 annual payments (the first payment being a year from today) with an interest rate 3%. Then, at 5th year, you will sell the car. A five-year old Tesla is currently selling for $50,000. Your power consumption is about 3 kWh/day. Currently, you pay 15 cents per kWh. You expect the car to need maintenance costs once, 3 years from today. The current cost for this maintenance is $600. Inflation rate is 2%. What is the NPV of using this car for 5 years? (Please note that all costs go up by inflation rate)
Please draw the cash flow diagram to make it more understandable
Cash Flows are as follows:-
Year 0 | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | |
Purchase cost | 0 | |||||
Sales Value | 50000 | |||||
Maintenance Cost | -636.725 | |||||
Annual Payments | -15284.82 | -15284.8 | -15284.8 | -15284.8 | -15284.8 | |
Power Consumption | -164.25 | -167.535 | -170.886 | -174.303 | -177.789 | |
Total Cash Flows | 0 | -15449.07 | -15452.4 | -16092.4 | -15459.1 | 34537.39 |
npv | -25472.20 |